mag
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]mag
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /mæɡ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -æɡ
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]mag (plural mags)
- (colloquial) Clipping of magazine.
- NY Mag ― New York Magazine
- stash of porno mags
- (colloquial) Clipping of magnet.
- Get the mag in there to clear away the scrap.
- (colloquial, especially medicine) Clipping of magnesium.
- She looks fine on physical exam, but I don't like these low mag levels.
- (colloquial, automotive) Ellipsis of mag wheel.
- brand new tires and factory-original mags
- (astronomy) Clipping of magnitude.
- (colloquial, law) Clipping of magistrate.
- (colloquial) Clipping of magnetometer.
- mag hits
- Some marine salvagers might be interested in these unusual mag hits.
- 2010, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2011: Hearings..., page 171:
- The policy is that all staff entering the Capitol are required to go through the mags whether or not they are with a Member of Congress.
- 2022 June 28, Luke Broadwater, Michael S. Schmidt, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump Urged Armed Supporters to Capitol, White House Aide Testifies”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- “Take the f-ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.”
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]mag (third-person singular simple present mags, present participle magging, simple past and past participle magged)
- (transitive, obsolete, slang) To steal.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]mag (plural mags)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A halfpenny.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
- "Why, of course you wanted to get in," Mr. Bucket asserts with cheerfulness; "but for a old gentleman at your time of life […] not to consider that if he don't keep such a business as the present as close as possible it can't be worth a mag to him, is so curious! You see your temper got the better of you; that's where you lost ground," says Mr. Bucket in an argumentative and friendly way.
- 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:
- When all your tin is gone and spent,
And you've not a mag for bread or rent
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Dutch mogen, from Middle Dutch mogen, from Old Dutch mugan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ-, *megʰ-.
Verb
[edit]mag (present mag, past mog)
Usage notes
[edit]The preterite form mog is archaic and rarely used.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Dutch macht, from Middle Dutch macht, from Old Dutch *maht, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *mógʰtis.
Noun
[edit]mag (plural magte)
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Denasalized variant of mang.
Noun
[edit]mag m (plural magë, definite magu, definite plural magët)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). First attested in 1803.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mag m (plural mags, feminine maga)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “mag”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Further reading
[edit]- “mag” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mag”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “mag” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mag” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German mak (“ease, calm”), related to Old Saxon makon (“to make”).
Noun
[edit]mag c or n
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mag
- inflection of mogen:
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /maːk/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /max/ (northern and central Germany, now chiefly colloquial)
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -aːk, -ax
- Homophone: mach (regional only)
Verb
[edit]mag
Gothic
[edit]Romanization
[edit]mag
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌲
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *muŋkɜ (“body”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mag (plural magok)
- seed, pip, stone, pit, core (the central part of fruits)
- kernel, core, nucleus (the most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence)
- Ellipsis of processzormag (“core”, an individual computer processor).
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | mag | magok |
accusative | magot | magokat |
dative | magnak | magoknak |
instrumental | maggal | magokkal |
causal-final | magért | magokért |
translative | maggá | magokká |
terminative | magig | magokig |
essive-formal | magként | magokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | magban | magokban |
superessive | magon | magokon |
adessive | magnál | magoknál |
illative | magba | magokba |
sublative | magra | magokra |
allative | maghoz | magokhoz |
elative | magból | magokból |
delative | magról | magokról |
ablative | magtól | magoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
magé | magoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
magéi | magokéi |
Possessive forms of mag | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | magom | magjaim |
2nd person sing. | magod | magjaid |
3rd person sing. | magja | magjai |
1st person plural | magunk | magjaink |
2nd person plural | magotok | magjaitok |
3rd person plural | magjuk | magjaik |
Variant plural and possessive forms:
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | — | magvak |
accusative | — | magvakat |
dative | — | magvaknak |
instrumental | — | magvakkal |
causal-final | — | magvakért |
translative | — | magvakká |
terminative | — | magvakig |
essive-formal | — | magvakként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | — | magvakban |
superessive | — | magvakon |
adessive | — | magvaknál |
illative | — | magvakba |
sublative | — | magvakra |
allative | — | magvakhoz |
elative | — | magvakból |
delative | — | magvakról |
ablative | — | magvaktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
— | magvaké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
— | magvakéi |
Possessive forms of mag | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | magvam | magvaim |
2nd person sing. | magvad | magvaid |
3rd person sing. | magva | magvai |
1st person plural | magvunk | magvaink |
2nd person plural | magvatok | magvaitok |
3rd person plural | magvuk | magvaik |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Entry #563 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ mag in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
[edit]- mag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Dutch maag (“stomach”), from Middle Dutch māge, from Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mag (first-person possessive magku, second-person possessive magmu, third-person possessive magnya)
- (colloquial, rare) stomach
- Synonym: lambung
- (colloquial) gastritis
Alternative forms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mag” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Livonian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (Courland) ma'g
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *mako. Related to Finnish maha.
Noun
[edit]mag
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *magos (“plain, field”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”) (compare Sanskrit मही (mahī́, “earth”) from the same root).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mag n (genitive maige, nominative plural maige)
Declension
[edit]Neuter s-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | magN | magN | maigeL |
Vocative | magN | magN | maigeL |
Accusative | magN | magN | maigeL |
Genitive | maigeL | maige | maigeN |
Dative | maigL, muigL | maigib | maigib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
mag also mmag after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
mag pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 253
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mag m pers
- (occult) wizard (person skilled with magic)
- Synonyms: czarodziej, czarownik
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- mag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mag in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Greek μάγος (mágos) (and perhaps partly through Old Church Slavonic магъ (magŭ)), from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). Also more recently borrowed in part from Latin magus, itself of the same Greek origin.
Noun
[edit]mag m (plural magi)
- magus (priest in some ancient eastern cultures, like Iranian/Zoroastrian)
- (Christianity) one of the three kings or Magi who visited the baby Jesus
- (figuratively) by extension, an envoy, messenger, herald, announcer
- wizard, magician, sorceror
- astrologer (or one who predicts the future through the stars), seer
- Synonym: astrolog
- wise man; philosopher
Declension
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[edit]Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
[edit]mag (past mhag, future magaidh, verbal noun magadh, past participle magte)
Welsh
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Back-formation from magu (“to rear; to breed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mag m (uncountable)
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
mag | fag | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mag
- Nasal mutation of bag.
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bag | fag | mag | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Wolof
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]mag (definite form mag ji)
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